Sample Sentences for
conceive
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conceive as in:  conceive the idea

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    She couldn’t conceive why he acted that way.
    conceive = understand
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    We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence.  (source)
    conceive = even begin to understand
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    "I can't conceive of a man who'd—"  (source)
    conceive = imagine
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    Only one of you had the brains to realize that in null gravity directions are whatever you conceive them to be.  (source)
    conceive = imagine
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    "Unthinkable! Inconceivable! Absurd! He could never be made into marshmallows!"  (source)
    Inconceivable = so totally unlikely it is hard to imagine it could be so
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivable means not and reverses the meaning of conceivable. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    After many years I had meticulously regurgitated the ten degrees of holy blessed sap, and mixed it in every conceivable formulation.  (source)
    conceivable = imaginable
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    I was then given a battery of increasingly difficult aptitude tests intended to measure my knowledge and abilities in every area that might conceivably be of use to my new employer.  (source)
    conceivably = possibly
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ably" is a combination of the suffixes "-able" and "-ly". It means in a manner that is capable of being. This is the same pattern you see in words like agreeably, favorably, and comfortably.
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    I brushed my hair ninety-nine times a night to bring luck to our marital bed, in hopes of conceiving a son.†  (source)
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    She did not understand, any more than a woman understands when she conceives a child in her womb.†  (source)
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    Though Edward clearly—if inconceivably—preferred me, I wouldn't be able to help making comparisons.  (source)
    inconceivably = in a manner that is not able to be understood or imagined
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivably means not and reverses the meaning of conceivably. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    And again George Hadley was filled with admiration for the mechanical genius who had conceived this room.  (source)
    conceived = originated the idea of
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    "You do not admit the conceivability at all?" he queried.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    The utterly inconceivable lost its massive inconceivableness.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inconceivableness means not and reverses the meaning of conceivableness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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conceive as in:  conceived their first child

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    I conceived via artificial insemination.
    conceived = became pregnant
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    For the two of you, the choice was made when Ender was conceived.  (source)
    conceived = created (as an embryo)
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    'The child was conceived out of wedlock,' he said, 'but the child's father was supposed to have been killed in the war.'  (source)
    conceived = made through pregnancy
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    I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of them are conceived the night of Big D's party.†  (source)
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    How could we know that a human was able conceive a child with one of us—  (source)
    conceive = create through pregnancy
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    What Everett Ruess was after was beauty, and he conceived beauty in pretty romantic terms.†  (source)
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    Of course Rosalie could not conceive a child, because she was frozen in the state in which she passed from human to inhuman.  (source)
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    Personally, I think that was the moment he conceived the next body of work for his sketchbook.†  (source)
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    And she conceived the idea of a soldiers' center.†  (source)
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    Every degradation of the spirit that can be conceived.†  (source)
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    Almost as soon as we married, Luke had been conceived—an accident.†  (source)
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    At his touch, Laila remembered the frenzy of that afternoon again when they'd conceived Aziza.†  (source)
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    Could she have conceived of the solution to a thousand-year-old problem?†  (source)
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